REWRITE: Hi, We have a nodejs + python environment, where the nodejs code launches python executable that are packaged as pex_binary (using pants). Rebuilding pex binaries can take some time, and is not a suitable solution for our development workflow (where we’d need to rebuild the package on every small code chage). How can we improve the development process?

You may be able to make the rebuilds faster using

layout="packed"

on the

pex_binary

targets (https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-pex_binary#codelayoutcode), although this may require some other tweaks to the process. Do you happen to have more specifics? E.g. is the nodejs code calling pants and then calling the pex_binary it produces, or maybe pants calls the nodejs script that depends on a pex_binary? Or something else? Best case would be an example repository that conveys the sense of what you're doing

Thank you. I will give

layout

and

execution_mode

a deeper look.